I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans. I also share ways to use real-time strategies to spread ideas, influence minds, and build business.
I've been reading the GrokDotCom site regularly for a while now and find the way that the smart Web site conversion experts at Future Now Inc., the producers of GrokDotCom, put this site together. GrokDotCom represents the future of a content rich marketing site and provides...
Heidi Cohen has written a terrific overview of what she's calling Branded Communications in her column on ClickZ. It is well worth a read. I've used a similar term Brand Journalism because my panelists Ben Edwards, Director, New Media Communications at IBM and Colleen DeCour...
Getting your organization visible on blogs is an increasingly important way to not only reach your buyers, but also to reach the mainstream media that cover your industry, because reporters and editors read blogs for story ideas.
Yesterday at the SIIA Information Industry Summit I moderated an absolutely killer panel discussion formally titled Advertising and PR for Everyone: Who is Winning the Race for Marketing Dollars?
Recently, a bunch of people have asked me how and why I ventured out on my own. Several of these people have a habit of sneaking song lyrics into email subject lines to see if I notice, so as I was thinking of a title for this post, I followed the lead of Bradley and Len. Re...
The New Rules of PR – a new and updated edition of the ebook for 2007 with a forward and newsmaker tips by David McInnis, founder & CEO of PRWeb, a Vocus Company.
Big News. The cover for my newest book The New Rules of Marketing and PR is finalized and I really like it!
It's award and list season! At the turn of the year people and organizations publish "best of" lists and in my opinion, this is terrific as a PR and viral marketing tool. I admit that I do check these things out a lot. As thought leadership (if the lists are well presented) ...